We’ve had a fun month studying Rodin (despite my preference for paintings over sculpture.)  I’ve been rather slow posting our projects, so here are two weeks worth of projects.

After studying The Hand of God and other hand sculptures, we completed 2-dimensional abstract hand drawings.  The kids simply traced their hands and used at least two different mediums to create an abstract design.  I love these!

You can see the Ivory soap sculpting we did as one of the projects during our Presidents unit in this post.  I didn’t get a close-up of the sculptures because they weren’t great, but you can see the small squares of Ivory soap in the two overall project pictures.  They didn’t turn out as quite the masterpieces that I’d hoped, but it was fun anyway!

To end the study, we pulled out some clay and tried a little sculpting.

“Flowers in a Basket”

“The Creek”

Here are the resources that have been in the sidebar this month.  I hope they’re helpful to you!

Francois Auguste-Rene Rodin

Artchive Gallery

The Thinker

Jean de Fiennes, Draped

Rose Beuret

The Hand of God

Lesson Ideas

Many Ideas for Drawing and Sculpting Hands

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